Just like that, I couldn’t wait. I needed him. Now.
I told him as much, fumbling at the slim leather belt looped through his black suit pants.
We were frantic, hot skin and searching hands. Reid took over releasing himself, while I shimmied out of my underwear and kicked them across the room.
Then he was there, revealed to me.
Hot, hard, and thick.
Watching him roll a condom over his length was the sexiest show on earth.
“Oh my God.” My inner muscles squeezed as if they could already feel him.
“I wanted you naked and bare to me the first time we did this … but I just can’t fucking wait to be inside you.” Reid pulled me across the desk to meet him, one hand clasping my nape again, the other gripping my hip beneath my skirts.
I gasped against his mouth as he prodded between my legs.
He thrust at the same time he kissed me.
Pleasure-pain exploded in a cascade of shivers down my spine and the back of my legs, tingling all the way to my toes. I was small; he was thick.
It was a tight fit.
Slipping my hands over his rock-hard arse, I wrapped my legs around his hips. He glided out of me and pumped back in. The slight burn eased, and all I felt was the overwhelming, amazing fullness of him moving inside me. I reveled at the feel of his muscles shifting beneath my hands, and I dug my fingers into his cheeks, begging for more.
“Harder!” I broke our kiss to pant.
Reid lifted his head. Our eyes locked as he moved his hand from my nape to my other hip so he could steady me.
Then he fucked me in earnest.
I had to let go of him to hold on to the desk.
Biting back my cries of pleasure, I held Reid’s eyes the whole time he drove into me. His expression was fierce with need, his eyes glittering under the light, teeth slightly bared as he took his pleasure from me.
Surprise flickered over his face. “I’m … I’m going to come. Fuck.” He slipped a hand between my legs and rolled his thumb over my clit.
“Oh God, oh fuck, oh God.” My head fell back on my shoulders as that tight, winding tension building inside reached the heavens.
And shattered with the bliss of it all.
I cried out, forgetting where we were as my inner muscles rippled around Reid in voluptuous tugs.
His eyes widened with the sensation. “Evan!”
My body was still pulsing with release as he throbbed inside me, his hips shuddering against mine as he climaxed.
I reached for him, kissing him through the last of it, desperate kisses that turned languid and luxurious as our orgasms eased.
Finally, Reid lifted his head to cup my face in his hands. “Jesus fucking Christ.”
I grinned and agreed, “Yeah.”
“It’s not enough,” he groaned, peppering sweet kisses down my chin and throat. “I need you again.”
As much as I didn’t want to remind him, I whispered, “I have to get back to the grotto.”
With a heavy sigh, Reid nodded and reluctantly eased out of me.
I winced a little.
“You okay?” He frowned.
“More than,” I promised him.
His eyes roamed my face. “No regrets?”
“No regrets.”
“You’re not leaving me.”
I grinned. “Was that a question or a demand?”
He scowled, but his tone didn’t match his expression. “Evan … please don’t leave me.”
Tenderness flooded me. “What about Patrick?”
Reid sighed again. “If he cares about us, he won’t stand in our way.”
“I don’t want to cause problems. I know how much his friendship means to you, and vice versa.”
“It does.” He slid his hands beneath my skirt again, causing goose bumps to chase his touch. “But I told you, I’ve never felt this way about anyone before. If I let you walk away, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life.”
His words caused me to smile so big, I probably looked like a moron.
Reid didn’t seem to think so, though. He smiled, squeezing my thighs. “Happy?”
I nodded. “Extremely.”
“Good.” He leaned his forehead against mine. “Because it’s my new mission in life to make you happy. So happy you’ll never want to leave me.”
“I approve of this mission,” I teased, pressing kisses to his bristly cheek until I reached his ear. And then I took a plunge of faith and confessed, “I love you, Reid.”
He jerked back, making my heart sputter with fear.
But then he demanded, “Don’t say it if you don’t mean it.”
Trying to quell my smile, I replied, “I mean it. No way has anyone ever made me feel the way you do.”
Confusion flooded me as he reached past me for his wallet. At the same time, he kicked off his shoes and the trousers that had fallen to his ankles.
“What …”
He was pulling out another condom. “Take off the dress. You’re going to be late.”
“Reid?”
“You just told me you love me. I want to say it to you while you’re naked and on your back and I’m buried deep inside you.”
I’d never taken off a dress so fast in my life.
Minutes later, I was sprawled across the couch in Reid’s office. We were both gloriously naked.
And he made love to me as he murmured how much he loved me over and over again.
Neither of us cared how loud we were or if anyone heard us.
All we saw was each other, all we felt was each other, and all we heard were those three little words whispered between us as we connected in every way two people could.
Chapter Six
EVAN
Christmas morning
My heart lurched when the doorbell rang. My palms sweated when Mum called out as she passed the living room from the kitchen, “That will be Annie and Reid. I’ll get it.”
I heard their loud greetings of “Happy Christmas” to one another, Reid’s voice more of a rumbling murmur in amongst our mums’ higher-pitched tones. The feeling in my stomach was familiar. I’d felt that deep, nauseating sensation that time my high school bestie convinced me to jump from the top diving board at the swim center.
Suffice it to say, my anxiety was through the roof.
After two weeks of keeping our relationship secret, Reid and I had decided to tell our families on Christmas morning. It was a gamble and possibly selfish if we ended up spoiling everyone’s day. However, it was the one time our families would be together and in a guaranteed good mood. And we lived on the hope that this news would be a gift to our parents.
Reid had wanted to tell Patrick on his own, but I didn’t think that was fair. It wasn’t all on Reid.
Mum ushered Annie into the sitting room first, and Reid’s mum came straight to me. I stood on trembling knees to embrace her and accept her soft kiss on my cheek.
“Happy Christmas, Annie.”
“You too, sweetheart.” She clasped my face in her hands, her dark eyes filled with tenderness. “You look beautiful. And happy. My son’s treating you right at that office, then?”
As hard as I tried, I couldn’t fight the blush that heated my cheeks. “Of course.”
The corner of her lips turned up in a knowing smirk and suspicion rippled through me.